The Archive was able to acquire recently an autograph letter of Arnold Schönberg written in Vienna around 1908/09. In the letter, Schönberg refers to a concert set to take place on February 25, 1909 and organized by the Viennese “Ansorge”-Verein. The concert included Schönberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht op. 4 and his Second String Quartet op. 10, performed with the assistance of Marie Gutheil-Schoder and the Rosé Quartet.

Arnold Schönberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. The complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.

The first critically edited score of Schönberg's oratorio “Die Jakobsleiter” marks the completion of a major music editorial project within the complete edition of his works. The manuscript source for the edition is held at the Arnold Schönberg Center.